Space Shuttle's "Return to Flight" - Page 2

Ghoulish Delight · 07-26-2005, 03:33 PM

I've been to Cape Canaveral and visited the Space Center, but there was nothing going on. No shuttle in sight, just the huge land crawler they use to transport it to the gantry. I've never even had the opportunity to get up to Edwards to see one land, let alone witness a launch first hand. It's on my long list of spectacles I really hope to see.

Matterhorn Fan · 07-27-2005, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I've never even had the opportunity to get up to Edwards to see one land, let alone witness a launch first hand. It's on my long list of spectacles I really hope to see.

Me too. If only I'd had the day off, I would have tried to convince someone to go out there with me. I don't know where the public can watch from, but I want to see it actually leave the ground. With the rumbling and the fire and all that. (Except not the exploding Challenger-like stuff. That was bad enough on TV. I'm not sure how I'd hold up witnessing something like that live.)

No one here seems interested, though. It's an attitude of "oh, they're doing that again."

Silly native Floridians. I wouldn't think something like a shuttle launch would really ever get "old." It's not that commonplace.

Ghoulish Delight · 07-26-2005, 03:42 PM

http://msnbc.com/modules/spaceshuttle/discoverylaunch/

This allows you to select up to three camera angles at a time (there are 11 to choose from) to watch the launch simultaneously. It's a lot of fun.

The current drama is, they are examining the footage from the 100 or so cameras to figure out what one pice of debris that was seen is. It may be a part of a tile. Also seen in the footage was what appeared to be a piece of insulating foam from the fuel tank (which is what hit Columbia causing the fateful damage), but it didn't hit the shuttle. And apparantly the cone took a bird out on the way up.

Part of the problem with determining if that bit of debris is something to worry about is that they've never seen the shuttle from those angles during that part of its flight. So they have no concept of "normal" debris to draw a reference from.

€uroMeinke · 07-26-2005, 06:34 PM

I saw them putting Apollo 13 together when I liven in Florida - that thing was big. Very sorry it never made it to the moon.

CoasterMatt · 07-26-2005, 08:00 PM

All this time down, and it's still the same shuttle!! Where are all the amazing effects?!?

TigerLily · 07-26-2005, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

All this time down, and it's still the same shuttle!! Where are all the amazing effects?!?

LOL....hopefullt it is safer, but debris is still falling off onto the tiles...hope it makes it back safely..

wendybeth · 07-26-2005, 08:19 PM

No doubt, Tigerlily. The last shuttle had an astronaut from Spokane- his parents still live here, and it was heartbreaking to see their last pictures of their son. (They had them developed in Eric's old lab shortly after the memorial). Most of the pics were from the pre-flight festivities and such, and their son was so incredibly excited to be going.

€uroMeinke · 07-26-2005, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

All this time down, and it's still the same shuttle!! Where are all the amazing effects?!?

C'mon, the thing hit a bird? Do you know how hard it is to target a bird in flight with a Space Shuttle - let alone capture it on camera.

Ghoulish Delight · 07-26-2005, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

All this time down, and it's still the same shuttle!! Where are all the amazing effects?!?

You gotta have the right pair of glasses...

scaeagles · 07-26-2005, 08:29 PM

Sopme interesting new info about the debris -

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050727/D8BJECR80.html

"In uneasy reminders of the Columbia accident, a thermal tile apparently got chipped..."

07-26-2005, 03:33 PM	#1
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I've been to Cape Canaveral and visited the Space Center, but there was nothing going on. No shuttle in sight, just the huge land crawler they use to transport it to the gantry. I've never even had the opportunity to get up to Edwards to see one land, let alone witness a launch first hand. It's on my long list of spectacles I really hope to see. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	http://msnbc.com/modules/spaceshuttle/discoverylaunch/ This allows you to select up to three camera angles at a time (there are 11 to choose from) to watch the launch simultaneously. It's a lot of fun. The current drama is, they are examining the footage from the 100 or so cameras to figure out what one pice of debris that was seen is. It may be a part of a tile. Also seen in the footage was what appeared to be a piece of insulating foam from the fuel tank (which is what hit Columbia causing the fateful damage), but it didn't hit the shuttle. And apparantly the cone took a bird out on the way up. Part of the problem with determining if that bit of debris is something to worry about is that they've never seen the shuttle from those angles during that part of its flight. So they have no concept of "normal" debris to draw a reference from. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,672	I saw them putting Apollo 13 together when I liven in Florida - that thing was big. Very sorry it never made it to the moon. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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CoasterMatt BRAAAAAAAINS! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: One Step Beyond... Posts: 8,802	All this time down, and it's still the same shuttle!! Where are all the amazing effects?!? __________________ Do you like my photography? Visit photosbymatt.tumblr.com to purchase prints!
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07-26-2005, 08:19 PM	#7
wendybeth Nevermind Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,847	No doubt, Tigerlily. The last shuttle had an astronaut from Spokane- his parents still live here, and it was heartbreaking to see their last pictures of their son. (They had them developed in Eric's old lab shortly after the memorial). Most of the pics were from the pre-flight festivities and such, and their son was so incredibly excited to be going. __________________
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07-26-2005, 08:29 PM	#10
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Sopme interesting new info about the debris - http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050727/D8BJECR80.html "In uneasy reminders of the Columbia accident, a thermal tile apparently got chipped..."
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